Minimal Audio has released Lucid, a new real-time granular effect plugin for macOS and Windows. We have covered Minimal Audio several times on BPB, including Current, Rift, and Morph EQ. Lucid fits the same general pattern we’re used to from Minimal Audio. It looks sleek, works great for sound design, and makes a complex process…
An offer lands in your inbox. A club in another country wants you, the fee looks better than anything you’ve been paid at home, and the flights are covered. It feels like the moment things start working. Then the gig happens, the money eventually arrives, and the number in your account bears little resemblance to…
Every piece of gear you own started as money that used to be yours. Somewhere down the line, if you play enough shows, that money comes back. The question almost nobody sits down and answers is when. Musicians track setlists, mileage, streaming numbers, follower counts — but the date a piece of equipment finally pays…
Mathemagical Music has released Mathemagical Timbres 1.0.3, a unique additive VST3 synthesizer for Windows. It generates 2048 partials and uses mathematical number sequences like Prime or Fibonacci numbers to adjust or modulate their volume, panning and pitch. This enables it to create some very unique timbres that you may not have heard before. Its resonant…
Dystopian Waves has released Arche, a bassline generator designed for creating, editing, and exploring bassline ideas from a key and scale or an imported MIDI chord progression. Arche includes 16 dedicated style engines, each built around a different musical approach, including Disco, House, Acid, Pop, Cinematic, and more. Each style engine generates basslines according to…
Solo developer Thales Pereira has released StemDeck, a free and open-source stem separation tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Thales says he built StemDeck to help his kid practice drums, after wanting a way to pull stems without paying a subscription or uploading music to someone else’s server. We’ve covered a few stem tools over…
ZEKAVEO is offering two free Quantum UI & Computers Discovery Edition sample packs, plus an exclusive 70% discount for BPB readers on eligible paid libraries. There’s a lot to cover here, so I’ll start with the freebies and then tell you more about the BPB discount. ZEKAVEO’s Quantum UI & Computers is a series of…
HARMONICO dsp has released Airy, a free stereo widening plugin for macOS and Windows. Airy was developed by Nicolas Barreau, a sound engineer and acoustician based in Paris. He reached out via email and described the plugin as a “point source widener,” inspired by the Airy diffraction pattern, in which a single point of light…